by Mark Swilling | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
Anthony Turton has for years warned about South Africa’s water crisis, and very little has been done in response. Now he is being proven correct. See this report on a recent talk he did. I am really struck by the statement that in the water sector there is no...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 13, 2016 | Publication
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the largest association of cities in the world, has published GOLD IV 2016 the Fourth Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy. Entitled Co-Creating the Urban Future, this is probably the most comprehensive and...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
Attending today a workshop in Cape Town hosted by HSRC on the role of universities as anchor institutions in urban development. Main speaker is David Perry, a US-based academic who has extensively studied the way US Universities have become active agents of urban...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 9, 2016 | Blog
An insightful student who is finishing the course work component of the masters degree in sustainable development that I coordinate, reflected in his learning journal on the dynamics of group work over the course of the 8 modules he has done. He discovered that where...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog
Just returned from Nepal where I led a course entitled Comparative Studies in Sustainable Living – we hiked daily, camped along the way in amazing landscapes, and the mountains, rivers and valleys were our classroom. The highlight was a two-day camp at Lake Rara...
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